Articles tagged "BYD"

BYD's ultra-premium Yangwang brand has been chasing ever-higher top speeds with its U9 Xtreme, which already hit 308.34 mph at Germany's ATP Papenburg proving ground in September 2025. Today, the FIA says the limited-run EV reached 312.65 mph on...

BYD only launched the Seal 07 EV back in March, but the company is already replacing it. Today, the second-generation Seal 07 went official in China, and the all-electric version is cheaper, quicker, and has a longer range than the car it...

BYD's premium brand Denza launched the N9 large SUV back in March 2025, but so far it's only been available as a plug-in hybrid, despite early reports also mentioning an all-electric version. Today, that EV has finally shown up in a regulatory...

BYD has just published its sales figures for October, and they include quite the milestone. The company sold 305,743 battery electric passenger vehicles last month, up 37% compared to October 2025, marking the first time its monthly EV sales have...

We tend to romanticize flagship beastly sedans as effortless cruisers built for crossing continents, but in real life, their size dictates where you can take them and how much energy you spend keeping them in perfect condition. Those cars come with...

Here’s a simple fact about cars, electric or not - whenever you spend six or seven hours behind the wheel, you quickly forget about performance numbers and start caring about cabin layout. If you cannot put your phone on a charger without knocking a...

There's an obvious pattern whenever a carmaker releases a second generation of its cheap-n-cheerful city car. The original model hits the streets as a scrappy, compromised runabout with thin door cards, four seats, and just enough power to keep up...

During the 2026 Paris Motor Show, BYD announced that its largest SUV, the Atto 8, is coming to the European market. This is a long, seven-seat EV, which aims to be an alternative to the Kia EV9 and the Hyundai Ioniq 9. It will also be available in...

Back in August at the Chengdu Auto Show, BYD first showed the upcoming third-generation Tang SUV, and today the brand has decided to unveil its interior. The five-seat SUV is scheduled to launch in China before the end of this year, joining the...

BYD's Yangwang brand seems to be very busy working on a new luxury executive sedan, which is allegedly internally codenamed Hu. Yangwang is BYD's premium luxury brand in China, so this makes perfect sense. The upcoming car has been spotted on the...

The original hot hatchback philosophy never had anything to do with raw horsepower - but everything to do with chucking a light, squared-off box through tight city roundabouts. When the BYD Seagull first arrived in early 2023, it captured that exact...

For the past couple of years, Fang Cheng Bao was the brand you associated with squared-off, boulder-crawling plug-in beasts - a sub-brand built specifically to pull wealthy outdoor hobbyists away from their Land Cruisers and Defenders. Yet here we...

If you live in the West, then you've been told that building a genuinely compelling, long-range electric vehicle on a budget is about as realistic as finding a unicorn in a supermarket. Legacy automakers blame battery costs, supply chain...

There is an old rule on the racetrack: when the chicane gets dangerously busy and every car around you starts swapping paint, the smartest driver looks for clear asphalt out wide. It is simple and effective. Right now, China's domestic electric...

Today at the Chengdu Auto Show, BYD showcased the third-generation Tang SUV, which is an important model because it's meant to revitalize the sales of the Tang series, together with the bigger Da Tang (Great Tang). The new Tang is a five-seat...

Only three years ago, if you wanted four figures of driving range, you had to drag an internal combustion engine along for the ride. When BYD launched the original Denza N8 back in 2023, the electric variant came with a respectable 108.8 kWh battery...

Every time a manufacturer promises a bargain EV, we usually end up with hollow plastic doors, anemic powertrains, and infotainment screens smaller than a retro handheld gaming console (Dacia Spring anyone?). But in China, the story seems to be...

Japan's kei car segment has long been an impenetrable automotive fortress. Suzuki, Daihatsu, Honda, and Nissan have guarded this hyper-regulated, quirky micro-universe like a Holy Grail. Foreign auto execs looked at Japan's strict dimension rules,...

Ever since electric cars stepped out of the golf-cart realm, we've been promised that the miracle battery was just around the corner. You know the pitch - the power pack that weighs next to nothing, charges before you can finish a sandwich, and...

Every time an automaker promises a holy grail technology that will magically vanish range anxiety, my cynical petrolhead instincts take the better of me. We have been hearing about solid-state batteries for what feels like a lifetime - hyped as the...